Venus
E19350
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, known for its dense, toxic atmosphere, extreme surface temperatures, and bright visibility in Earth's sky.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Venus canonical | 68 |
| planet Venus | 8 |
| Shukra | 1 |
| Venus (planet) | 1 |
| Venus has a predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere | 1 |
| Venus orbit | 1 |
| surface of Venus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156239 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Venus Context triple: [Solar System, hasComponent, Venus]
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A.
Merkur
Merkur was a short-lived automotive marque created by Ford in the 1980s to sell European-designed performance and luxury cars in the North American market.
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B.
Venera
Venera is a grade or class within the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the country’s highest distinction awarded to foreigners.
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C.
Mercury
Mercury was an American automobile marque of the Ford Motor Company known for producing mid-priced cars positioned between Ford and Lincoln.
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D.
Mercury
Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in our Solar System, known for its extreme temperature variations and heavily cratered surface.
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E.
Vulcan
Vulcan is the Roman god of fire, metalworking, and the forge, often depicted as a blacksmith crafting weapons and armor for the gods.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Venus Target entity description: Venus is the second planet from the Sun, known for its dense, toxic atmosphere, extreme surface temperatures, and bright visibility in Earth's sky.
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A.
Merkur
Merkur was a short-lived automotive marque created by Ford in the 1980s to sell European-designed performance and luxury cars in the North American market.
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B.
Venera
Venera is a grade or class within the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the country’s highest distinction awarded to foreigners.
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C.
Mercury
Mercury was an American automobile marque of the Ford Motor Company known for producing mid-priced cars positioned between Ford and Lincoln.
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D.
Mercury
Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in our Solar System, known for its extreme temperature variations and heavily cratered surface.
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E.
Vulcan
Vulcan is the Roman god of fire, metalworking, and the forge, often depicted as a blacksmith crafting weapons and armor for the gods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
inner planet
ⓘ
planet ⓘ terrestrial planet ⓘ |
| albedo | high albedo ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Evening Star
ⓘ
Morning Star ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitude | up to about −4.7 ⓘ |
| atmosphereComposition |
carbon dioxide
ⓘ
nitrogen ⓘ sulfur dioxide ⓘ |
| atmosphereFeature |
dense atmosphere
ⓘ
thick sulfuric acid clouds ⓘ toxic atmosphere ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| coreType | metallic core ⓘ |
| crustType | rocky crust ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | prehistoric observers ⓘ |
| equatorialDiameter | about 12,104 kilometers ⓘ |
| escapeVelocity | about 10.36 kilometers per second ⓘ |
| exploredBy |
Akatsuki Venus climate orbiter
ⓘ
surface form:
Akatsuki spacecraft
Magellan spacecraft ⓘ Pioneer Venus project ⓘ Venera missions ⓘ |
| hasAtmosphere | yes ⓘ |
| hasGreenhouseEffect | runaway greenhouse effect ⓘ |
| hasMagneticField | very weak induced magnetic field ⓘ |
| hasNaturalSatellites | no known moons ⓘ |
| hasRings | no known ring system ⓘ |
| inclinationToEcliptic | about 3.39 degrees ⓘ |
| mantleType | rocky mantle ⓘ |
| mass | about 4.87 × 10^24 kilograms ⓘ |
| meanDistanceFromSun |
about 0.72 astronomical units
ⓘ
about 108 million kilometers ⓘ |
| meanRadius | about 6052 kilometers ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Roman goddess of love and beauty ⓘ |
| observableWith | naked eye ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | about 225 Earth days ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
| positionInSolarSystem | second planet from the Sun ⓘ |
| rotationDirection | retrograde ⓘ |
| rotationPeriod | about 243 Earth days ⓘ |
| similarTo | Earth in size ⓘ |
| surfaceFeature |
impact craters
ⓘ
large shield volcanoes ⓘ tessera terrain ⓘ volcanic plains ⓘ |
| surfacePressure | about 92 times Earth surface pressure ⓘ |
| surfaceTemperature |
about 465 degrees Celsius
ⓘ
about 735 Kelvin ⓘ |
| visibilityFromEarth | very bright in Earth sky ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Venus Description of subject: Venus is the second planet from the Sun, known for its dense, toxic atmosphere, extreme surface temperatures, and bright visibility in Earth's sky.
Referenced by (81)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
this entity surface form:
Venus orbit
subject surface form:
BepiColombo
subject surface form:
Akatsuki
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
subject surface form:
Maya civilization
this entity surface form:
Shukra
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
this entity surface form:
Venus (planet)
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
this entity surface form:
planet Venus
this entity surface form:
Venus has a predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere